All-Star Baseball 2002

Talk about a laugher. This game is true garbage through and through. I bought this game when it came out because it was the only available baseball game on the GameCube at the time. Horrible. The music, sound effects and graphics were all great, but that's where it ends. You could not hit a home run if your life depended on it. This lead to extremely low scores every time. I think the final score for any team was never over 2. The final score was mostly 1-0. There was a Homerun Derby mode also. So you would think you would be able to crack it over the wall numerous times in this mode right? Nope. I tried it several times and I maybe hit one homerun one time. The AI was very difficult as well so the only way I was able to beat the game was start it at the World Series and I managed to get lucky and win 4 games. Any time I was about to lose I would reset and start over so the other team wouldn't get a win for the game. It shouldn't have to resort to that. I poured through the instruction manual to see if I was doing anything wrong but couldn't find anything.
Maybe the first batch was flawed and they corrected it for later shipments of the game but that's just speculation from an experience I had with The Bigs on the Wii. The short story on that is I was half way through The Bigs and it was getting pretty difficult and then my daughter put some nice teethmarks on the game and broke it. I had to send it in for a replacement copy (luckily it still was under the 90 day manufacturer's warranty) . When I put the new game in and loaded up my old game from the save I had in my Wii the rest of the game was not that hard at all. It was like they changed some of the game later on because it sure wasn't that easy when my copy busted.
So this is why I speculate a fixed copy of All-Star Baseball 2002 may have eventually hit shelves if the first one was flawed. This is a perfect example of a game that can have wonderful graphics but without playable gameplay it's thrown out the window.